Rail tie



Dec. 19, 1922.

H-. H. DE MOSS.

BAIL TIE. FILED DEC-23. 1921.

Patented Dec. 19, 1922.

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rates HAROLD I-I. DE MOSS, F CLARKSBURG, VTEST VIRGINIA.

RAIL TIE.

Application filed December 23, 1921; Serial No. 524,380.

To all w ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARoLn H. DE Moss, a citizen of the United States, residing at (.llarksburg, in the county of Harrison and State of Nest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail Ties, oi which the following isa specification. a 1 i This invention relates to improvements in 1G an improved rail tie foruse in laying temporary tracks in mines. In laying such tracks it has heretofore been the custom to employ ties having spaced upstanding memat their ends against and beneath one of which the rail is disposed, at one side, a wooden :wedge being driven between the rail and the other said member so as to bind and clamp the rail to its seat. However the preparation of these wedges requires considcrable time and labor and their 'useis gen. erally unsatisfactory. On the other hand it undesirable to employ rails embodying rail clamping members which require to be secured in place by bolts and nuts as too much time is consumed in assembling and laying the track. Therefore it is the primary object of the present invention to provide a rail tie for use in a temporary track structiu'e which tie will be simple and substantial in structure, will be adapted to securely clamp the rail base without the employment of wooden or other wedges as is now customary and will be adapted to have sembled and disassembled thus permitting oi? the track being laid or taken up in a short space of time.

Where wooden wedges are employed as members are secured in place by bolts and nuts, wedges of a certain size and shape must be produced in large numbers and because of their nature they soon become so damaged or mutilated as to become unfit for further use. The employment of bolts and nuts is an expensive proposition where they require to be frequently removed and replaced the threads soon become worn, and also difficulty often experienced in removing the bolts it they have become rusted. Therefore the inventionhas a further and equally important object to provide a rail tie ot the class referred to embodying a rail clamping member adapted to be secured in metallic rail ties and more particularly to its component parts readily and quickly as-.

above mentioned or where the rail clamping place by an inexpensive and readily obtainable medium namely an ordinary rail spike adapted to be quickly driven into place to secure the rail clamping men'iber, and to be as readily and quickly displaced to release the member when occasion requires.

in the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of one oi the ties embodying the invention in use;

Figure 32- is a detail vertical longitudinal sectional view through one end of the tie; and the rail secured thereon;

Figure 3 is a h through the illustrating the means provided for see my the clamping member in clamping posit on, the view illustratingthe manner in v nch this means is to be employed; and 1 I lligure l is a perspective view of one end of the. tie, the rail claniiping member thereof being separated from the body of the tie.

While the tie embodying the invention may be employed as a permanent rail tie or in other words as a component part oi a per manen't track, it is prin'iarily designed for use in constructing a temporary traclnthe tie being)? indicated in general in the drawings by the numeral 1 and the rails by the numeral The tie 1 comprises a body which is indicated by the numeral 3 and is preferably of channel iron construction, embody a supporting top portion and depending longitudinal flanges 5 designed to rest upon or seatin the temporary road bed. Near each end the body 3 provided upon its supporting top portion l with a permanent or fixed rail base engaging member in dicated by the numeral (3 and comprising an attaching portion 7 riveted or otherwise secured as at S to the said portion l of tlie tie body and a lip 9 which is inclined upwardly from the attaching portion 7 in thedirec tion oi the adjacent end of the body and in spaced relation to the upper surface oi? the said portion l so as to receive beneath i t the base flange of the iii :15 best shown in Figure of the drawings;

Each tie further embodies a dispiriceable or removable rail clamping member 'iich is indicated in. general by the numer and thismember compi'i snanlq 1i 'WlllCll is of dimensions to be titted into the end oi the channel or the body 3 of the tie. seating between the flanges 5 and bearing at its upper side against the under side of the supzontal sectional view porting top portion 4t oi? the said body. At one end the shank 11 is provided with an upwardly and inwardly directed base flange engaging lip 12 designed to overlie the outer flange of the rail base and the adjacent end of the supporting top portion l of the the oortin srticn 42-. of the tie bod after which h a: ber 10 is disposed in position with shank ll seating r'thzn the channel of the body and with the lip 12;. ing about the end of the portion l 05 the body and over the outer side of the rail flange. v

In order that the member 10 may be secured in place in a manner to seen; i i grip the rail and hole it the tie the flanges are termed, near the ends of the body o tl e tie with one or more pair o located rectangular open shank 11 ot the member transversely extending r or bores 1.4; the ends of i brought into substantial the openings 13. i l/h trated in Figure 3 iore being secured,

openings or bores l i less ex ent overlap the while the parts are in this i of an ordinary spike indi J moral and having the usual wed 1.6, is driven through one or the opcnin s l3 and into the corresponding opening and as the spike is drive;. into place its wedge end will act upon the wall of the open- Zing l-ii draw the niember l0 longitudinally within the channel of the body 3 so that its lip 12 will be caused to firmly bind upon the base flange or the rail. d hen the spike has been driven into place for the {full length of its shank, it will extend through the opening 14 and through both of the openings 13 and the parts will thus be curely locked in place although capable ready disaesemble by simply driving out the spi will. be unde ood that while a; croe 3 rail spike i lenient in the t; the invention, it cons .utes in en'ect a key having a shank of uniform dimensions throughout its entire length exc' at its entering end where it is ol wede shape, it

yin o will also be evident that the member 10 is more or less resilient and that a sutlicicntclearance is left the point where the bend in the lip 12 engages about the end of the supporting top portion 4 of the tie body and the edge of the rail base flange, to permit ot the loiigitudinal'displacement of the member in an inwarddirection to an extent to insure of proper wedging engagement of the lip 12 with the base flange of the rail.

By providing one or more pairs ol the openings 13 and either a single one 01 the openings 14- or several of the latter openi k e, if tound expedient, the tie is adapted for the support of rails of different sizes but this is of course optional and it may be found the better practice under ordinary conditions to provide single pair of the iii and a single one of the open- L rail tie for a temporary track comcha-nneled body, a relatively fixed flange engaging member thereon, a rail base llange clamping member comprisg a sha the bo and provided with a baseflange engaging lip extending over and above the end oi? the body, and a seeuring'element remrwably inserted through the walls of the channel and through the said shank.

2. A rail tie for a temporary track coina channeled body, a relatively fixed flange engaging member thereon, a il bare flange clamping member com- ..ng a shank disposed within the channel body and provided with a base .3 lip extending over and above the the body, and a securing element rer ovabiy inserted through the walls of the (,ililllllGl and through the said shank, the 'd securing element comprising a shank oil substantially uniform dimensions except at its entering end where it is of wedge tor- 1: ation to adapt to exerta wedging action against the clamping member to draw the same into clamping engagement with the rail when the said securing element is driven into place.

3. A. rail tie for a temporary track comprisin a channeled body, a relatively fixed rail base flange engaging member thereon and a rail base flange clamping member comprising a shank disposed within the channel of th body and provided at one end th a base flange engaging lip to extend and above the end oi the body to on age the base flange of the rail the said rank and the walls of the channel being (A a e s neans for the parts. I

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